Perhaps because there are a lot more poor people and people that don't know anything about computer hardware than there are people who know what they're doing?ROTFL! Then how come the ECS K7S5A has become the best selling mainboard ever in PC history - by a huge margin? And is still a great seller even a good two years after its introduction? The rest of Tom's views is just as off.
I guess we know where you're coming from too:But now that you disclosed that Tom's is your one true source of information, we all know where you're coming from ...
Peter: Champion of the Cheap Stuff.
Let's see, who's more credible? The guy with the hardware review site that's been popular for years and years and years, or Peter, the unknown guy who says "Forget about Asus, Abit and Intel! ECS is the way to go! And they cost half as much too!"
LOL
It's nice you like that cheap crap and can make it work Peter, but don't try to pawn it off on the rest of us as "the best there is".
BTW- if you don't like Tom, how about Digit Life? Or are you smarter than they are too? (LOL)
SiS the dissed
Unfortunately, it had no Hyper-Threading support: the release of revision B had been postponed, and without such support the chipset wasn't of much interest among top solutions.
There's neither Serial ATA, nor FireWire
The latency is not low at all in the SiS648FX
And check out SiS behind Intel and VIA in every single gaming benchmark! If anyone is laughing Pete, it should be at you for championing that cheap SiS crap. I like this even better though:SiS falls behind by 16%, while PT800 yields less than 3% to the leader.
Taking into account the scarce functionality and low performance of SiS648FX among all three chipsets, its price is the most powerful feature.
And what's up with this Pete? Slowest among all the reviewed chipsets at all gaming benchmarks AGAIN. I'm starting to think you WORK at SiS, because no one else in their right mind would defend them so rabidly. (you know, because they suck?)
Digit Life smacks POSiS some more
The picture doesn't change at all: judging by the SiS748 based sample we got, this chipset is the slowest among the modern solutions.
Well, we didn't expect any other outcome: SiS chipsets could never boast of their speeds if their FSB/SDRAM clock speeds were equal to their competitors'.
Like I said, cheap junk for poor people and people who don't know better.